Doncaster Rovers News 24/7Writer: 
Date:Thursday July 20 2006
Time: 3:23PM
UK time is: 19:57:47
Choose your club
Other Sites
Network Navigation
Vital Partners
'If It's Football, It's Vital'
Promotion Or Bust?
Not that long ago Doncaster Rovers were happy to get 3000 fans, and 3 points against Conference rivals, aiming for the promised land of the Football League.
Today, with the move to an all seater 15,000 capacity stadium within touching distance, the new season about to start and promotion to the Championship as the aim, life is very different for the South Yorkshire club.
Chairman John Ryan has revealed that the wage bill at Rovers now tops three million, despite moving on several players including high earners Michael McIndoe and Phil McGuire.
In a world where football is one of many weekend attractions, Chairman up and down the country feel the need to get the best, whatever the cost. Big name signings not only inflate the ego, but bring fans through the turnstiles.
Can Rovers compete? Ryan seems to think so and wants to throw money at players to get them to sign, in the hope they bring glory and reward to the Belle Vue club. On paper it should work, names like Shaun Thornton and Bruce Dyer should be 'ratings winners'. But at what cost?
A wage bill of three million pounds in League One, on the average Rovers gate is not good business. However, John Ryan seems happy to keep bank rolling the Club, in the hope of promotion. An increase in attendances when the Rovers move to the new stadium should help, but its still risky business in this day and age.
Rovers fans hope that John Ryan is not like most Chairman, who are all to keen to play at being managers, signing players they want, not those who would be good for the team, and ultimately, leave the club saddled with debt when it all goes wrong.
Vital F1 Prediction League - Join now for Monaco
Your Comments
Its Bust then !!!!!!, joking apart there is a number of good teams trying to get out Forest, Huddersfield,Bristol will all be stronger this year. I hope you can do it and give hope to those so called smaller clubs.
Big No 9
I do feel we keep putting unnecessary pressure on ourselves, somebody as already said we have got a lot of stiff competition again this coming season, we are not the only club to buy a few good players and this doesn't give us a divine right to gain promotion. If we have a bad run the fans will still start showing their frustration ( we are very fickle!!!) and we have to remember what we have already acheived in the last few years!!!!!!!
dazza71
Very good article. I agree with Dazza71 about putting unnecessary pressure on ourselves. Only last night, Mickey Walker said that we would walk the league. I do believe that this wage bill is way too high. Some of the players must be on big bucks.
NathanDRFC
Have Your Say
Recent Articles
DRFC Hume unclear what the future holds (Monday May 20 2013)
DRFC Dickov - Good or bad appointment? (Monday May 20 2013)
DRFC Ryan delighted with Dickov appointment (Monday May 20 2013)
DRFC Dickov excited about Rovers challenge (Monday May 20 2013)
DRFC Dickov the new Rovers manager (Monday May 20 2013)
DRFC New Manager To Be Unveiled On Monday (Sunday May 19 2013)
Former striker looking for more Wembley heroics (Sunday May 19 2013)
DRFC Ryan - Only two left on Rovers shortlist (Saturday May 18 2013)
DRFC Are you disappointed with the released list? (Saturday May 18 2013)
DRFC Former loanee in England World Cup squad (Friday May 17 2013)
Archived Articles
Vital Members League (view all)
| 1. | DonnyEd | 27 |
| 2. | 1879Rovers | 17 |
| 3. | Dblido | 13 |
| 4. | Moss rover | 5 |
| 5. | temaze10 | 4 |
| 6. | viking phil | 3 |
| 7. | laughty | 2 |
| 8. | Jaclin | 1 |
League Results (view all)
| Latest Results | ||||
| Brentford | 0 | - | 1 | Doncaster |
| Doncaster | 0 | - | 1 | Notts County |
| Crewe | 1 | - | 2 | Doncaster |
| Doncaster | 0 | - | 2 | Carlisle |
| Doncaster | 1 | - | 0 | Tranmere |
| Doncaster | 1 | - | 0 | Swindon |
League Table (view table)
| Team | P | W | D | L | GD | Pts |
| 1. Doncaster | 46 | 25 | 9 | 12 | +18 | 84 |
| 2. Bournemouth | 46 | 24 | 11 | 11 | +23 | 83 |
| 3. Brentford | 46 | 21 | 16 | 9 | +15 | 79 |
| 4. Yeovil | 46 | 23 | 8 | 15 | +15 | 77 |
| 5. Sheff Utd | 46 | 19 | 18 | 9 | +14 | 75 |
| 6. Swindon | 46 | 20 | 14 | 12 | +33 | 74 |
| 7. Leyton Orient | 46 | 21 | 8 | 17 | +7 | 71 |
Breaking League News
| Keeper wants to remain number one
» Crewe : 22/05/2013 16:35:00
|
| Gradi rules out return
» Crewe : 22/05/2013 16:18:00
|
| Davis emerging as Wolves favourite
» Crewe : 22/05/2013 15:08:00
|
| SUFC Would McCall be a good or bad appointment?
» Sheff Utd : 22/05/2013 14:54:00
|
| Dunne Ready For 'Strongest' League One
» Colchester : 22/05/2013 14:19:00
|
| Pitman: No-one expected us to go up that day
» Bournemouth : 22/05/2013 08:02:00
|
| On this day in history...22nd May
» Portsmouth : 22/05/2013 08:00:00
|
Current Site Poll (view all polls)
|
|
2 © - All content copyright Vital Network Ltd, not to be reproduced without explicit permission Copyright Issues
Cookie Policy
At Vital Football, we along with most other modern websites use small files called 'cookies' to create the most secure, effective and functional website possible for our users. Without these files our business model, based on advertising, breaks down and we would be unable to continue to provide the services that you are here to utilise. By continuing to use this website after seeing this message, you consent to our use of cookies on this device unless you have disabled them. For full details please read our Cookie Policy which can be found here. However, if you would like to disable cookies on this device, please view our Cookie Policy which contains an opt-out tool for disabling advertising cookies. Please also visit our information pages on 'How to manage cookies' if you would also like to block all other types of cookies. Please be aware that parts of this site will not function correctly if you disable cookies.